Lyr Req: In Summer's Cool Shade (Samuel Arnold)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In Summer's Cool Shade (Samuel Arnold)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 09:32 PM

Found at the web site of The Scholars of London, a vocal quartet:

IN SUMMER'S COOL SHADE
Samuel Arnold

In summer's cool shade, how delightful to sit:
In winter, how social, when few friends are met:
In autumn ripe fruits our palates regale:
In spring we delight in the blossom'd sweet vale.
Each season has pleasure and blessing in store:
Rejoice and be happy and wish for no more;
For know, the best season to laugh and to sing
Is summer, is winter, is autumn, is spring.

Subject: RE: Lyric req - Summer's cool shade
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 11:24 PM

I should add that I do not know of any case where Arnold ever wrote the lyrics to any of his many tunes.

"Twas on Christmas day" in Child's Appendix to "Our Goodman", #274, is by his son Samuel Arnold, Jr. and it is from their joint opera 'Auld Robin Gray', 1794.

Subject: RE: Lyric req - Summer's cool shade
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 11:17 PM

In the summer's cool shade. A glee for four voices, [Printed for] The Author: Westminster.
by Dr. Samuel Arnold, c 1775.

Two copies of the original edition are in London (that's all in the British Isles). I don't have a copy of it. The Library of Congress has a large Arnold collection, formed by a collector who specialized in Arnold's works.

Subject: Lyric req - Summer's cool shade
From: Jon
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 10:27 PM

I'm looking for the lyics (and tune if anyone has it) for the tune "In summer's cool shade" by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802). It might also be called "Seasons". Anyone know this one?

Thanks

Jon